<p>I skimmed this and it sure would have saved me some time if I'd seen it 30 years ago:</p>
<p>SSRN-How</a> to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students by Orin Kerr</p>
<p>thanks johnshade
looks interesting</p>
<p>these previous threads might also be of interest to those who are [thinking of] entering law school and want to do some reading:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/345123-invaluable-books.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/345123-invaluable-books.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/375631-any-good-books-will-pique-interest-law.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/375631-any-good-books-will-pique-interest-law.html</a></p>
<p>to the books listed there, I’d add Law 101 by Jay Feinman and (for beach reads that make practicing law sound a lot more exciting than it really is) some of the older John Grisham books, or The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez.</p>